Again and again I went out on the balcony and watched the streets.

I saw the procession of thousands upon thousands come down Royal Avenue.

But this was not the only line of march, for all Belfast was now converging upon the City Hall, the arrangements in which must have been elaborate.

It was a procession a description of which would have been familiar to the Belfast public, but the like of which is only seen in Ulster." The tribute here paid to the conduct of the Belfast crowd was well merited.

But in this respect the day of the Covenant was not so exceptional as it would have been before the beginning of the Ulster Movement.